Wednesday, July 7, 2010

YouTube users uploaded two videos over the weekend that appear to show Israeli soldiers on duty dancing to American pop music, using their guns as props. In one clip, it appears the dance is occurring during a Muslim call to prayer. Robert Mackey has the story on The New York Times' blog, The Lede.

One user explains the original videos were taken down on July 5. Several users saved and re-uploaded the clips over the weekend. Here are a few videos that have gone viral:

User name:socksasglovesLocation: Hebron, IsraelDate uploaded: July 5Views: 1,854,660User notes: Israeli soldiers dancing in Hebron. More on the situation in Hebron: http://bit.ly/hebron-city. This video, originally titled "Israeli soldiers-"PALHOD 50" Rock the Casbah in HEBRON" was uploaded by youtube user "cleangrunge" on July 2nd 2010. On July 5h the video was removed from the site. Here it is again.Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

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